Video of some guy using Apple Vision Pro headset WHILE IN THE DRIVERS SEAT OF A TESLA CYBERTRUCK is going around. (unsure on original source, but I will geolocate the location -- it's Lehi Utah, see followup). #cybertruck#applevisionpro#safety#tesla#badidea#stupid
"Der #Cybertruck wirkt wie das sicherste Fahrzeug einer Welt, die nicht gerettet werden konnte. Ein Planet, in dessen Wuesten man im Rueckspiegel einen Mob Mad Max “War Boys” hinter sich sieht, die auf der Suche nach dem letzten Liter Benzin auf alles Jagd machen, was 4 Raeder hat und gar nicht wissen, dass die Kiste auch noch elektrisch betrieben wird!
Saw my first Tesla Cybertruck in the wild a few days ago. Longer than I expected, but the hood height was lower than I expected — much lower than on big new SUVs & pickups. But worse pedestrian/cyclist visibility than smaller cars, and sure wouldn't want one to hit me.
If it does manage to begin delivery this month, it’s going to be riddled with build quality issues and unforeseen (or foreseen, if you’re actually reasonable) problems with its body panels and bizarre design, leading potential buyers to look elsewhere.
Now that you can actually buy decent (and decent-looking) EV trucks from Ford, GM, and Rivian, the Cybertruck’s competitive appeal is gone.
I’m also taking guesses at the pricing. I think the promised $40k base price is pure fiction, and will never see the light of day. Tesla will start deliveries at some top-end trim which I’m going to guess will end up being $85k–$100k.
Medium term, I think the Cybertuck will be a laughingstock, a weird anomaly in automotive history. Maybe in another 20 years, it will become a collectible curiosity.
The thing to remember about the Tesla Cybertruck: not everyone has to like it. Just some fraction of people. That situation is common with vehicles. I'm not buying one, but I'm willing to be persuaded that a stainless-steel exoskeleton could be a good engineering idea. We shall see. #Tesla#Cybertruck
The sadness of a #CyberTruck owner.
"Days after launch, you sit at a red light. The novelty is gone, you aren't any happier. Maybe it's your imagination but the gaps in the door looks off. You think you saw a car full of teens laughing at you earlier. You're now 100k debt for a meme, and you feel nothing."
Geolocated the silly "driver getting out of a Cybertruck with Apple Vision Pro On" (which is going viral) and it's the same guys in Lehi, Utah. I think they probably made a bunch of "stupid Cybertruck/Apple Vision Pro" tricks videos for views. #cybertruck#AppleVisionPro#geolocation
I hope to see a Tesla Cybertruck in person soon, it sounds like a high quality EV. If you read the article and get to the part about Musk requiring all parts be built to "sub 10 microns", that's 0.000394" and highly unrealistic.
I work in a high precision machine shop and our tolerances are +/- 0.001"-0.005" depending on application. That's thinner than a sheet of standard printer paper...
One thing I noticed about the #Cybertruck after having seen it in person is that it always looks dirty. It has slab sides of brushed stainless steel that tend to reflect light in vertical streaks, making it look like it has water stains running down its sides all the time.
The DMC #DeLorean, in contrast, has curved sides, and this shape catches light in a flattering way, reflecting horizontal bands showing the earth and sky.
Look at the reflection of the red brake light in the last picture: the light is smeared vertically on the door. Now repeat that with every light and shadow and it contributes to the grimy look of the surface.
I’m sure this is all basic car design stuff. #cars
As you know, I go to a ton of #carmeets. Well, #Cybertrucks have started showing up to a couple of morning meets the past two weekends.
And I noticed something interesting: car people ignored them. Nobody stopped their conversation to look. Nobody got on their knees to take photos. Nobody got their phones out to make reels. They just glanced at the truck, and went right back to talking with their pals. Absolutely zero interest.
It’s fascinating because the weirdest-looking, ostensibly most technologically interesting vehicle to have come out in decades shows up, and car enthusiasts treat it like it were a Kia Sedona. Every reviewer of the Cybertruck says they constantly get stopped by people wherever they go—well, apparently, this does not happen at car gatherings.
And it’s not about EVs, either. Bring a Rimac Nevera, and I guarantee you’ll get a crowd forming around your car. It’s the Cybertruck in particular.
Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tire gave an honest and (therefore) devastatingly negative review of the #Cybertruck. Good on him. Every point he makes is spot-on (except maybe the chuckle-inducing post-Apocalypse truck argument).
"It's a car that promises — for only those who can afford them — a blank check for vehicular manslaughter and unnecessary survivability from semi-automatic firearms. Its tagline ("more utility than a truck, faster than a sports car") speaks almost poetically to two distinct but orthogonal archetypes of threatened masculinity: the tacti-cool milspec dork, and the showboating rich guy."
Nathan Ingraham, Engadget